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An examination of the prospects for widescale use of methanol in motor fuels: Technical, economic and policy issues.

机译：甲醇在汽车燃料中广泛使用的前景研究：技术，经济和政策问题。

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This study examined several dimensions of the prospect for widescale (i.e., nationwide) use of methanol in internal combustion engines. The dimensions include the cost to produce methanol from natural gas and coal, an examination of the availability of methanol including the potential for capacity to increase over time, an estimate of the relative costs to a consumer of various methanol-technology options, and an examination of whether methanol is a cost effective way to increase gasoline octane. A number of engineering-economic models were developed to examine these dimensions from either the producer or the consumer perspectives.;From the producer perspective, it was found that the excess capacity of current methanol plants is insignificant relative to the volume of gasoline consumed nationwide. Producing methanol from coal to supplement the limited methanol capacity was found to be expensive with the product methanol being approximately three times as expensive as the cost of gasoline from petroleum at the current petroleum price level. If methanol were to be blended, fuel producer profits were estimated to be higher than most schemes for raising gasoline octane which, normatively speaking, should encourage blending. Estimates of the industry capacity to increase the volume of methanol used annually were made. The results showed that the fuel industry could substantially increase methanol capacity by as much as 1.45 billion gallons every year.;From the consumer perspective, the discounted costs of using any of the methanol-technology options (which include methanol blends, near neat methanol, neat methanol, use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) as gasoline octane enhancer, and methanol to gasoline) were estimated. Methanol blends and the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) in gasoline for octane enhancement were found to be the least cost options for the consumer.;The role of the Federal Government was also examined. A 1988 Congressional Act designed to promote methanol commercialization was reviewed and found to be too limited in scope and underfunded to achieve the objectives of the Act. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.).
机译：这项研究检查了在内燃机中广泛（即在全国范围内）使用甲醇的前景的几个方面。这些维度包括从天然气和煤炭生产甲醇的成本，检查甲醇的可用性（包括随着时间的推移容量增加的潜力），估算各种甲醇技术选择对消费者的相对成本以及检查甲醇是否是增加汽油辛烷值的经济有效方式。开发了许多工程经济学模型，从生产者或消费者的角度检查这些方面。从生产者的角度，发现当前甲醇工厂的过剩产能相对于全国汽油消耗量而言微不足道。人们发现，用煤生产甲醇来补充有限的甲醇容量是昂贵的，在目前的石油价格水平上，甲醇产品的成本大约是用石油生产的汽油成本的三倍。如果要掺混甲醇，估计燃料生产商的利润要比大多数提高汽油辛烷值的计划高，从规范上讲，应鼓励掺混。估计了行业每年增加甲醇使用量的能力。结果表明，燃料工业每年可大幅提高甲醇产能至多14.5亿加仑。从消费者的角度来看，使用任何甲醇技术选择（包括甲醇混合物，接近纯净的甲醇，估计使用纯甲醇，使用甲基叔丁基醚（MTBE）作为汽油辛烷值增强剂和甲醇制汽油。人们发现，甲醇掺混物和在汽油中使用甲基叔丁基醚（MTBE）来提高辛烷值对消费者来说是最省钱的选择。;还考察了联邦政府的作用。审查了旨在促进甲醇商业化的1988年国会法案，发现范围太有限且资金不足，无法实现该法案的目标。 （摘要经作者许可缩短。）。

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    Ezekoye, Levi Ike.;

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    Carnegie Mellon University.;

  • 授予单位 Carnegie Mellon University.;
  • 学科 Transportation.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 1989
  • 页码 369 p.
  • 总页数 369
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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